Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
I'm honestly not sure if these guys are singing
in English or what. It sounds more like a pack of angry animals
or drooling vampires croaking over a chiming and expansive soundscape.
But before you check that off as a bad thing, imagine a bizarro
combination of Band of Horses
and like a Frog Eyes, Wolf
Parade / Wilderness mash up.
Hard to fathom? Then try a smattering of Modest
Mouse for good measure. What you're left with is something
that sounds vaguely evil (as their full name World Unite Lucifer Youth Foundation
might suggest) but is also on the verge of dancey and is clearly
produced to within an inch of its lovely brink. It would have
been easy to tame some of the insane drumming, tamp down the
echo a bit and find a lead singer who didn't sound as if he
was being burned alive while he was shouting and called itself
the new new pop band, but these guys, from my minimal reading
on the subject, don't sound like the kind of dudes who go for
convention. Granted in this day and age, being weird and "controversial"
is the standard. So who knows what's real and what's just smart
salesmanship on their part? Whatever the case, they've made
an album here that defies my minimal ability to describe its
coolness. I'm sure only the Williamsburg crowd will be able
to validate their hipness, and I'm certain they're already well
on their way to be being crowned the new new thing. |
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